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Sisyphus

By yizhao-jin

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Overall9293.5022
Fun12813.1022
Innovation3593.7222
Theme17542.7022
Humor3303.5022

Comments

justking144 2021-04-26 14:47

A very cool concept. Love how you used the myth of Sisyphus to show gamer motivation and engagement. Second mountain was overwhelming frustrating and third was a cool challenge, but nothing happened when I got the boulder to the top of the mountain

steven-c 2021-04-26 15:32

pretty cool, but also rather tedious, but that's kinda the point ofcourse :sweat_smile: Good job!

wizard-sino 2021-04-26 15:56

Very fun, reminds me of a comic I read once. https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/2014-02-05

yizhao-jin 2021-04-26 16:22

Push the stone to the bottom of the third mountain, where there is no grass, there will be an extra short story. @justking144

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yizhao-jin 2021-04-26 16:25

In fact, I was inspired by this comic @wizard-sino

dhim 2021-04-26 17:49

Thankfully you can spam enter while the up arrow is pressed!

2021-04-27 01:24

I liked the art but i accidentally skipped through the instructions and now im stuck.

twowolf 2021-04-27 06:08

I liked it. Although stage 2 can rot in Tartarus, no offense to you

yizhao-jin 2021-04-27 13:16

It seems that the stage2 experience is not very good, Sisyphus can try to detect the trap before pushing the stone.

truechips 2021-04-27 13:32

Kinda pointless, but thats the point (Me and my terrible puns).

felixmreeve 2021-05-07 11:40

I think I maybe got stuck since I thought I got to the top but nothing seemed to happen for me. You've done a really good job of emulating the frustration and tedium of the story, which doesn't make a fun game but is really interesting to play and think about. It's an interesting and meaningful gameplay experience which I'm really glad I had. Really interesting take on the story, and feels really unique. I'd love some more story included to give some more in-game text to expand on your game's ideas. Thanks for creating this, I'm glad I played!